Thursday, August 2, 2012

Big Brother Recap: Episode 9

Sushi and Spin the bottle

This year’s
Big Brother has been all about making and breaking deals. Everyone has a deal
with somebody else to keep them safe next week. It seems that every one of
those deals will fall apart sooner or later on Big Brother 14.

After the
nomination ceremony Ashley can’t believe she was nominated because she was 99
percent sure she was safe. Even if you are 100 percent sure you should be
worried in the Big Brother house. On the other hand Joe wasn’t surprised as much
as he was just pissed off, “I am angry, I am frustrated; I’m on the block
because my coach is Janelle.”

Janelle
doesn’t seem worried at all, she tells her team that they have to put on smiles
and “start kissing ass.” She also decides it’s time for her to get to work and
she goes to the HoH room to talk to Britney. She plays it off like she isn’t
mad at Britney or Shane for nominating two of her players and in the calmest,
nicest voice tells Britney that she just wants to work with her again, that’s
all. Janelle continues to push the idea on Britney that Shane needs to get rid
of Frank because he is the biggest threat. Britney doesn’t really trust Janelle
because she knows just how good Janelle is at this game.

Britney lets
Shane in on what Janelle was just telling her. Brit tells him that if he wins the power of
veto then Janelle’s team needs them and will be willing to make any deal. Shane
agrees saying to Britney “you can always back door anyone.” I don’t think Shane
understands that it’s him and not Britney that has the power. If someone were
to tell him his best move was to nominate himself I think he would do it.

Janelle is
back to pushing her team into going to see Shane and telling him they want to
deal. Wil and Ashley say they don’t want to known as ass kissers, and Joe just
awkwardly yells something. (I’ve started to tune out every time Joe is talking
because he hurts my head.) Janelle sends Joe up to the Head of household room
with plans of being a nice guy and making a deal with Shane. Shane tells Joe that
he should have stayed with him two weeks ago and maybe he wouldn’t be in this
spot. Joe quickly gets frustrated, his face starts getting red and he starts
yelling. After the meeting Joe has a diary room interview where he yells at the
camera, “Ahhh I’m Joe Blah, Blah,Blah” (Ok, he didn’t say that. He said “I’m
going to win this power of veto and mark my words, son I’m coming after you!”)

The players
playing for this week’s power of veto are Shane, Ashley, Joe, Frank, Danielle,
and Wil. Wil, Danielle, Joe and Ashley can’t win anything so it’s pretty much
between Frank and Shane. Shane also picks Jenn “City” to host.

The backyard
is turned into a circus for the veto competition, with all the players wearing
low budget clown costumes. Each contestant must roll two balls each on a
different ramp at the same time, when one of the players balls hits the ground
they are eliminated. The last contestant with both their balls in play wins.

Britney
tells Shane before the competition that he “can’t get nervous and thrust it. It
has to be, like, very graceful.” Not only is that great advice but if I was one
of the other coaches I’d be telling my players the same thing.

You can see
right off the bat that Shane is the most in control, actually holding onto one
ball till the other ball hits the top of the opposite ramp. Most of the other
contestants are doing a ond hand jerky motion to keep their balls going. Ashley
uses a technique she calls the “gentle push.” She describes it as “using one
hand by gently pushing the ball.” Wil and Joe are the first two too get knocked
out of the competition. Frank gets knocked out when he panics and pushes so
hard that the ball goes flying over the side rail. Danielle and Ashley quickly
get knocked out, meaning Shane is the winner. This is the third straight veto
that Shane has one. He might just be a contender.

Britney and
Shane celebrate the veto win in the HoH room. Brit does a couple little dances
and then quickly starts bashing Janelle’s team about how they are downstairs
pouting and stomping around after losing. She even says that all Janelle’s team
does is “make up songs, braid hair and cook.” She goes on to do an impersonation
of Joe that I have to say was pretty spot on. (Britney is on like a role of
bashing people this season. She has had some epic one liner’s.)

Janelle
hurriedly goes to talk to Shane and Britney about what their plans are going to
be with the veto. Wil joins the conversation and then right after that Ashley
opens the door and asks probably the dumbest question I’ve ever heard on BB
before, “Are you guys talking?” Really Ashley?

The
conversation goes from game play into the idea of trust. To prove that Shane
and Britney can trust her Janelle offers them her wedding ring to keep for
three weeks saying “if you go home before the three weeks you can have my ring.”
She even says that she has Chanel earrings she be willing to give them.

Joe goes up
to see Shane again to make a final plea. He compares himself to someone who is
hanging off a cliff and how if Shane were to save him from this cliff he would
be forever in his debt. Shane is hesitant to believe Joe because Joe betrayed
him the second week in the house and Joe is annoying. (That has to be one of
the reasons that nobody trusts him right?)

It’s time
for the sushi party that Dan won during the coach’s challenge on the last
episode. He comes out announcing the party looking like the Karate Kid. The
backyard is set up like a top class sushi restaurant, with a bar, couches and a
whole lot of raw fish. Everybody outside is enjoying themselves especially Mike
Boogie who has been craving sushi for awhile now.

Meanwhile
inside the house Wil and the houseguest who weren’t invited to the sushi party
celebrate his birthday by dressing up and running around in their underwear. (I
think Wil was the only one in his underwear. Why was Wil in his underwear?) The
people inside are having so much fun that it leads the outsiders to want to
come back in and join the rager going on inside.

With all the
house guests inside and the wine flowing, Wil decides to start up a game of
spin the bottle. Remember when you were a kid and you played spin the bottle.
There was always the one kid who like another kid so you always tried to get it
to land on them so that they could be forced to kiss. Welt hats what happened
here, not one, but twice. First Ian spun the bottle and Dan grabbed it and
pointed it at Ashley which led to one of the most awkward kisses I think I have
ever seen on TV. Ian goes in for a big romantic smooch grabbing Ashley’s head
only to have her squirm and twist her face giving him the tiniest of pecks.
Then it was Shane and Danielle’s turn to be forced to kiss in front of all the
other houseguests. At least their kiss wasn’t as awkward although it did send
Danielle on the edge of sanity exclaiming that she didn’t know what was going
on.

Britney gets
all worried about Boogie’s team after asking Ian that if he won HoH if he would
put Shane up on the block. Ian’s response was a little wishy washy and that
sent a whole wave of distrust through the HoH room. Shane sees this as an
opportunity to put up Frank and backdoor him and use Ian’s reluctance to
confirm Shane’s safety as the reason why.

At the veto
ceremony Shane decided to take Ashley off the block and putting Frank up. The
whole scene ends with Boogie storming off and Janelle sitting in the living
room all smiles.

Thursday
night we, not only, find out who goes home but we also get to hear if the
coaches will enter the game and play for the $500000 grand prize. With
everything that has passed Frank is not feeling very comfortable but will have
to wait to see if he can get the votes to stay in the Big Brother house.